Twenty five years ago, when I first stood at the gate of 5 Windsor Place it did not look inviting. It still had yet to be allotted to IWPC but had been identified by the Coomi-led house hunting team. Tall grass blocked it out from view. It was cloaked in eerie silence made worse by ...
This is a moment of celebration. It is not the time to quibble over shortcomings or over petty insinuations. We are 25 years old and that in itself is a major achievement. To have built up and sustained a media organisation through its many ups and downs is no mean achievement. And to imagine, when ...
With a home of our own at 5, Windsor Place, it was time to acquire an identity of our own. Who were we, anyway? Nobodies, really, without the words that we had strung together – as reporters, commentators, analysts, in variegated publications and in various languages. That’s when somebody came up with a...
Neerja Chowdhury The significance of 25 years of IWPC goes beyond the creation of a body of professional media women, which provides a home to women journalists away from home, a workplace away from workplace, a watering hole and a safe environment from where they can function during the day. They can r...
Kalyani Shankar The IWPC is a dream come true for the founder members because there were many initial hurdles to cross but it became a reality within three months of our efforts to form a women journalists’ press corps. It has survived these 25 years and has grown from strength to strength. I was very ....
Ever since the Indian Women’s Press Corps (IWPC) was founded 25 years ago, there have been occasional sneers and jeers questioning the need for a separate forum for women journalists. The misplaced logic is that opening a body exclusively for women scribes is tantamount to dividing the profession on gen...
